Category Archives: WebWorks

Targeting the BlackBerry Q10 with BlackBerry WebWorks

The excitement of last week’s launch of BlackBerry 10 still hasn’t worn off around these parts. We feel it in the air. We are at the brink of something new in the world of mobile computing. As you know, we here at BlackBerry have been working tirelessly to get to this point, the global launch of BlackBerry […]

Join Us Monday, January 21st at the Toronto BlackBerry Developer Group

Our very own @mendozamiche, @naveenan5, and myself - @grahamzibar will be in downtown Toronto for a hands-on WebWorks experience this coming Monday, January 21st starting at 6 pm  We’ll be showing you how to build your first BlackBerry 10 app using the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK. We’ll be doing awesome things like downloading the SDKs, setting-up your environment, enjoying some beverages, […]

BlackBerry 10 Community and Android Port-A-Thon Recap

Here’s a recap of our BlackBerry 10 Community and Android Port-A-Thons from Lou Gazzola – Jesse This weekend during the BlackBerry Community & Android Port-A-Thons we witnessed something very special happen, something which can energize all our developer community! We had over 1,000 people around the globe come together for 37.5 hours and submit over […]

BlackBerry 10 Last Chance Port-A-Thon

Last call for porting apps - Register now for the Last Chance Port-A-Thon! When we decided to hold a series of Port-A-Thons to help our developer community port their apps over to BlackBerry 10 we had no idea how wildly successful they would be. This past weekend’s Port-A-Thons brought in more than 15,000 apps! It has […]

Reaching new heights with BlackBerry 10 – #BB10AppVenture

BlackBerry developer events come in all shapes and sizes. We really want to bring BlackBerry 10 to developers so they can create something truly amazing – and as you may have noticed recently, #TeamBlackBerry never stops, especially in an exciting time like this. So we have decided to step it up a notch…well, actually, almost […]

Solid Gold! Official release of the BlackBerry 10 WebWorks SDK

DSC04801 / mat79 / CC BY 2.0 Months of planning. More months of development. Re-planning. Long hours. Trips around the world. Meeting with you, our BlackBerry WebWorks development community. It all culminates with this: the gold release of the BlackBerry 10 WebWorks SDK. The team here could not be more stoked to deliver this final […]

bbUI.js version 0.9.5 signed, sealed and delivered

With bbUI v0.9.5, <meme>We Has JavaScript</meme>. The focus in this release has really been another round of bug fixes, optimizations and additional JavaScript interfaces. The previous versions of bbUI have started to improve with the number of JavaScript interfaces, but still haven’t provided full dynamic functionality. This release gets us further towards our goal of […]

Maps. They Don’t Love You Like I Love You.

Forget everything you know about working with maps and BlackBerry WebWorks. Mapping just got real, real easy! We heard you ask for an easy way to integrate mapping services with your BlackBerry WebWorks applications, and today I’m happy to announce that on BlackBerry 10, the process has become much simpler. We’ve put together a straight-forward sample […]

WebWorks Ant Build Script

There are many ways to build BlackBerry WebWorks applications, like the Ripple Emulator, the BlackBerry Graphical Aid, or the command line. Each one has some good use cases, and yet I think there’s room for one more: an Ant build script that can include some pre-processing and will work well with automated builds. Ant has […]